Echoing Slate's out-of-date Portland exposé from this past fall, MTV's followed the momentum of their Brooklyn 2008 piece with a feature on PDX. What we learn: There are a lot of bands who live there, it's still relatively cheap, it... CONTINUE READING MTV LETS US KNOW PORTLAND HAS BANDS, BASEMENTS, RAIN, TREES»
Posted on July 16, 2008 in (45 comments)
Tags: Colin Meloy | Eat Skull | M. Ward | Menomena | The Decemberists | The Gossip | The Thermals | Valet | White Rainbow | YACHT
Reminiscent of NPR's "Project Song" -- remember Stephen Merritt's "The Man Of A Million Faces"? -- The Guardian asked Colin Meloy to write a song while journalist Laura Barton sat at the dining room table in his Portland home and... CONTINUE READING COLIN MELOY STARTED WRITING A SONG FOR THE GUARDIAN, NEEDS HELP COMPLETING IT»
Posted on April 14, 2008 (2 comments)
Tags: Colin Meloy | Elvis Perkins | SXSW | The Decemberists
In April, Colin Meloy's releasing his first full-length solo album, the 17-track Colin Meloy Sings Live! (the Morrissey and Shirley Collins collections were EPs). That's a long time to wait, Decemberists fans, so this week's Drop offered a sneak peek... CONTINUE READING THE 'GUM DROP VOLUME XXVI: HEAR NEW COLIN MELOY, WIN A GIBSON EPIPHONE GUITAR»
Posted on February 27, 2008 in (5 comments)
Tags: Bruce Springsteen | Colin Meloy | Peter Bjorn And John | The Decemberists
Following in the grand Sings series wherein Colin tackled selections from the catalogs of Shirley Collins (see: Colin Meloy Sings Trad. Arr. Shirley Collins) and Morrissey (see: Colin Meloy Sings Morrissey), the Decemberists' prog-folk poet brings good tidings of a... CONTINUE READING COLIN MELOY SINGS LIVE!»
Posted on January 16, 2008 (5 comments)
Tags: Colin Meloy | The Decemberists
